3322.—The Two Jehorams
By Editor
Please tell us how it is that Jehoram's youngest son could reign in Jerusalem before his father. We do not know to just what our correspondent refers. We know of no such difficulty as that which he sets forth. The predecessor of Jehoram was Jehoshaphat, who began his reign in 819 B.C. and reigned twenty-five years. Jehoram his son began his reign conjointly with his father in 796, probably at the time that Jehoshaphat left his kingdom and went over to help the king of Israel. Two years after that Jehoshaphat died. Jehoram reigned eight years from the time of his accession with his father Jehoshaphat, and Ahaziah began his reign in 789. Or does our correspondent have in mind Jehoram son of Ahab? It is not a difficult thing to get the two Jehorams mixed. We would ask our correspondent to be a little more definite and give us the scripture where the difficulty occurs.